Rotterdam-based office for urban design and landscape architecture West 8 have shared with us their entry for the Valencia Central Park competition. The design, a collaboration with Sener & Gestec, reached a place on the competition shortlist.

London-based landscape architects Gustafson Porter have won a high profile competition to design the Valencia Parque Central. The winning project “Aigua Plena de Seny” was developed by an international multi-disciplinary team which is a joint venture led by Gustafson Porter and includes Borgos Pieper architects…

Last Thursday, four globally renowned landscape and urban design teams converged on Minneapolis to present to the public their visions for the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition (MR|DC) at the Walker Art Center. The teams - Ken Smith Workshop (New York City), Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston),…

Portuguese architects AWAKE are sharing with us their fascinating entry "ColmeiA" for the A101 Block City competition in Moscow, Russia. The concept is based on a modular system arranged in a dense city block which still allows for natural lighting from two fronts for each unit.

Architects Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren have shared with us their entry "Frozen Street - Dissolving Borders" for the A101 Block City Competition for Moscow, Russia. The team just recently won a first prize in the international competition The Building: Problem or Solution? with their entry "A Green Mosque…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2011 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban design. Following are the six winning projects in the category "Regional and Urban Design":

Rotterdam-based practice Maxwan has completed the master plan for the transformation of the Central Station and its adjoining quarter in the city of Leiden, the Netherlands, transforming a typical neglected station area into a vibrant new high-density neighborhood.

The joint venture of Amsterdam-based de Architekten Cie. (Frits van Dongen, Patrick Koschuch and Jason Lee) and Rotterdam practice SVESMI (Alexander Sverdlov), are multiple winners of the open international competition A101 in Moscow, Russia. A101 Block City is the first phase of a huge 13,000…

Danish C. F. Møller Architects has recently won the competition to build a new, closed state prison on the island of Falster in south-eastern Denmark. The new state prison for approximately 250 inmates is designed as a low, urban structure, centered around the various leisure and working…

Last week, we shared the third place entry Rolling Master Plan by Jägnefält Milton for the Norwegian master plan competition for the city of Åndalsnes; and the shared first prize entry, The Landscape Loop,  by JAJA. Today, we bring you the other shared…